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Black Composers in Hollywood: Duke Ellington and John Lewis
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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This hour explores Duke Ellington’s music for the 1959 film Anatomy Of A Murder and John Lewis’ score for Odds Against Tomorrow, released the same ...

Bought by KRCU Public Radio and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Jan 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
Episode #663 - 1953 Jukebox Rhythm Review, Pt. 2
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the jukebox is in the spotlight as Matt The Cat takes you back 70 years and highlights the top jukebox hits of the second half of 1953. ...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, WUTC, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
UpFront Soul #2023.03-January 17-23, 2023- Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This week, we honor the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We'll hear excerpts of his sermons, speeches, and interviews, along with funk,...

Bought by KZUM, WOUB, KAAD-LP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KSTK and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2023
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 13
Episode #662 - 1953 Jukebox Rhythm Review, Pt. 1
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the jukebox is in the spotlight as Matt The Cat takes you back 70 years and highlights the top jukebox hits of the first half of 1953. Y...

Bought by KSRQ, Royalton Community Radio, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, WUTC and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
NL 23-03: Dear Martin, P.S.: More Jazz Tributes To Martin Luther King Jr., 1/9/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Jazz recordings in honor of the civil-rights leader made by James Spaulding, Billy Taylor, Herbie Hancock, and others.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Episode #659 - Rhythm & Blues Christmas, Pt. 2
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Matt The Cat has dug up some more R&B Christmas treasures and added a few tunes about New Years for this week’s continuation of the “Juke In The Ba...

Bought by KCSM, Royalton Community Radio, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, WUTC and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Episode #658 - Rhythm & Blues Christmas Pt. 1
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
It's the Holiday Season, so why not grab a glass of 'nog, sit back and relax and dig on some great vintage Rhythm & Blues Christmas tunes. It’s the...

Bought by KCSM, Royalton Community Radio, KSRQ, WHRV, KJZX-Austin and more


  • Added: Dec 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Episode #655 - Pookie Hudson (The Spaniels)
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Pookie Hudson spent his entire life close to the music he loved. In high school, he began to develop his own style using his falsetto with just a t...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KTRT RADIO INC, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
UpFront Soul #2022.47 November 22-28
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Redbone
We'll celebrate Native American Heritage Month with music from Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, A Tribe Called Red, Khu.eex, Jim Pepper, Redbone, Geo Neptu...

Bought by WOMR, RADIOLEX, KAAD-LP, WOUB, KMUN and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 14
Episode #651 - Halloween Rhythm & Blues
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the ol' Rockola Jukebox is haunted by a strange spirit of rhythm & ghouls. Dig on some of your old favorites by Screamin' Jay Hawkins, L...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KSRQ, WHRV, KJZX-Austin, WUTC and more


  • Added: Oct 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
UpFront Soul #2022.43 October 25-31
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Rockwell
It's a soulful spooktacular edition of UpFront Soul! We'll scare the funk out of you with creepy classics from Rockwell, Stevie Wonder, Stanley Tur...

Bought by Prairie Public, KMUN, RADIOLEX, KAAD-LP, WLPR and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 14
Black, Brown and Beige - Duke Ellington’s Historic Jazz Symphony
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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In 1943, Duke Ellington debuted a landmark 43-minute musical portrayal of the African-American experience at Carnegie Hall. We'll hear music from i...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WNMU-FM, KMUW, WVIA, Radio Catskill and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 20
NL 22-36: Duke Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige, 8/29/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In January 1943, bandleader and composer Duke Ellington took his orchestra into Carnegie Hall for the first time and chose to make his debut with a...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
All Mixed Up:Tributes & Celebrations
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Black Power, Credit: Bill Russell RIP
A late-summer tribute mix of music, history and celebration featuring some of those who have left us--while striving to move the world towards a be...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2022
  • Length: 59:07
The Fantastic Jazz Harp of Dorothy Ashby
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Throughout jazz history the harp has rarely been heard as a soloing or primary instrument, but in the 1950s and 60s Dorothy Ashby, a musician out o...

Bought by WJCT, KRCU Public Radio, WVTF, KLCC, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
Episode #634 - 4th of July: R&B Food Songs
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
What’s more American than celebrating America’s birthday with some good ol’ red, white and Rhythm & Blues about THE Fourth of July staple: food? Di...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KSRQ, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, KCSM and more


  • Added: Jun 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
THE EMERGENCE OF STEVIE WONDER (SINGLE HOUR VERSION)
From: Paul Ingles
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The early emergence and on-going stellar career of musician STEVIE WONDER is explored and discussed in this special (offered this month of June - A...

Bought by WJCT, KUNM, KGOU, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
THE EMERGENCE OF STEVIE WONDER (2 HOUR VERSION)
From: Paul Ingles
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The early emergence and on-going stellar career of musician STEVIE WONDER is explored and discussed in this three hour special (offered this month ...

Bought by KMUW, KUNM, KGOU, WGBH Radio Boston, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 14
Hour 12: Beyond Each Shining Sea
From: PRX
Series: Jazz Singers
Caption: Host Al Jarreau and producer Jacquie Gales Webb, Credit: Jacquie Gales Webb
Jazz music is an indigenous American art form, but if you listen closely you will hear elements of Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Carribean...

Bought by KECG, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WPVM 103.7, WFIU, WJCT and more


  • Added: May 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 20
Hour 10: On the Road and In the Club
From: PRX
Series: Jazz Singers
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Jazz singers tell it like it really is. Today's singers and yesterday's tell of their experiences, joys, trials and tribulations performing this mo...

Bought by KECG, KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WPVM 103.7, WMPG and more


  • Added: May 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 22
Hour 9: It's Our World...Sometimes
From: PRX
Series: Jazz Singers
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Jazz singing has always benefited from the innovations and sensitivity of women...from trailblazers Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaugh...

Bought by KECG, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WPVM 103.7, WFIU, WMUH and more


  • Added: May 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 21
Episode #628 - Art Rupe & Specialty Records, Pt. 3 - 1953-56
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the "Juke In The Back" pays our respects to one of the great record men of the 1940s and 50s; Art Rupe. Rupe passed away on April 15, 20...

Bought by KCSM, Royalton Community Radio, KNCT FM, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Hour 7: Scat, Bebop, Vocalese, and the Voice as an Instrument
From: PRX
Series: Jazz Singers
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With comments from Louis Armstrong, Anita O'Day, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Mark Murphy, and Kurt Elling, this program will trace the evolution of the in...

Bought by KECG, WPVM 103.7, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WFIU, KZYX and more


  • Added: May 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 22
Hour 3: Straight Out of the Church
From: PRX
Series: Jazz Singers
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From early spirituals to gospel to blues to jazz, singing as an expression of deep emotion evolved, with the various strains blending into each oth...

Bought by KECG, WPVM 103.7, WFIU, WRTI, WMUH and more


  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 22
Hour 2: Saturday Night Function
From: PRX
Series: Jazz Singers
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Jazz was born amidst revelry and ribaldry. Jazz vocals have, from the beginning, dealt with the earthier side of life. Artists such as Dakota Stato...

Bought by KECG, WPVM 103.7, KSRQ, WFIU, WRTI and more


  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 25